Summer Soccer

We debated for awhile about signing the kids up for summer soccer.  The games are all during the week which is nice so it doesn't take your weekend.  However, they're in the evenings so it is HOT.  I ended up talking Tara into signing Eliana up too so we all did it to get them on the same team.  It was the day before the first game and we still hadn't heard from a coach.  Paul called the league and they said since we signed up so late they would all have to be split up on separate teams....."unless he wanted to coach?!"  So, with that,  we went from not sure we were going to sign them up to Paul being the coach.  We're glad we made the choice though because they are loving it.  Colin has just really gotten the hang of it and Audrey is a natural and so fun to watch.  They have some difficulty with daddy being the coach and wanting his attention when he has to give it to other kids but it's been going okay.

Audrey was very excited when she got her new cleats! 

Excited to be part of the team!

Daddy and Coach

The girls

This was our game on Thursday.  For a change, it wasn't 102 and sunny.  It actually rained, poured!  The kids had fun playing in the rain once Paul told them to think of it as a splash pad and sprinklers.  Audrey was still getting over being sick so once it started raining she hid out under the umbrella.  

 A video of them playing. The first part of the clip is Colin getting the ball and taking it to score, the next clip is him making a good defense move. Audrey is in a skirt in the clip and you can see how she takes control of the ball when she wants to and has some pretty fancy foot work.